Luxembourg's Foreign Minister : Merkel's Fiscal Pact a 'Waste of Time and Energy'[Spiegel Online]
Jean Asselborn, has served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Luxembourg since 2004. He also leads the parliamentary group of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party.
Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn is sharply critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's push for an EU fiscal pact. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he says it won't hold up. Furthermore, big countries like Germany and France threaten the currency union with their egotism, he says.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Increasing numbers of people are losing their trust in the European Union and euroskeptic parties are gaining in popularity. Meanwhile politicians are caught up with petty bickering over rules. What is going wrong in Europe?
Asselborn: A few things are going wrong. But the European Union as a historic peace project is not in question. The motivation for its founding was to prevent the Europeans from waging war against each other.
But the political dimension -- that is the entire economic, social, environmental or foreign policies -- these are currently not convincing the people.
Lire : spiegel.de
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